Desire and Dust
2020
In this book, the animation of commodity objects magically ties together erotic frolics and political horrors: from a DC07 vacuum cleaner to a detention center for refugees, from little irons, socks and sweaters, to the particulars of post-Soviet power, and Vladimir Putin. Desire and Dust includes the newly commissioned text “The Dust Files” written by Paul B. Preciado and the classic “The Biography of the Object” by Sergei Tretíakov as well as texts by Roee Rosen and his fictive identities, Maxim Komar-Myshkin and the Buried Alive Group.
- Design: Wrong Studio
- Editing: ANNE MIKÉL JENSEN, ROEE ROSEN
- Texts: BURIED ALIVE GROUP, MAXIM KOMAR-MYSHKIN, PAUL B. PRECIADO, ROEE ROSEN, SERGEI TRETÍAKOV
- Copies: 1000
- Pages: 160
- Type of binding: Soft cover
- Languages: English
- Dimensions (cm): 13×27
- Printing: Graphic Unit / Strandbygaard
- Binding: Graphic Unit / Strandbygaard
- Type of printing: Offset
- Publication: Sternberg Press and Kunshal Charlottenborg
- Place of publication: London and Copenhagen
- Supported by: Grosserer L.F. Foght Foundation, the Knud Hojgaard Foundation, the Obel Family Foundation and the Danish Arts Foundation
- Book photography: Leafing Magazine
- ISBN: 9783956795459
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Roee Rosen (born 1963 in Rehovot) is an Israeli-American multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and writer known for his multilayered, provocative works that blur the lines between history and the present, documentary and fiction, and politics and erotica. Educated in philosophy and literature at Tel Aviv University before earning a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (1989) and an MFA from Hunter College (1991), Rosen is a professor at Beit Berl College’s HaMidrasha Faculty of the Arts and at the Bezalel Academy. He is known for fabricating intricate fictional personas like Justine Frank and Maxim Komar-Myshkin, and for works such as Live and Die as Eva Braun, The Blind Merchant, The Dust Channel, and Kafka for Kids. His films Out (or Tse) and The Buried Alive Videos have garnered international acclaim, and his work has been exhibited worldwide in institutions such as Centre Pompidou, documenta 14, and in retrospectives.
